US Constitution
Vocabulary and Main Ideas from the Constitution Unit
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- 1st amendment
- part of the Bill of Rights that includes freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion and to petition
- Vice President
- head of the Senate
- We the People
- the first three lines of the Constitution
- 435
- total number of Representatives in the House
- federal
- the government that coins money
- amendment
- a change to the constitution
- executive order
- a command that has the power of law
- bicameral
- the term meaning "TWO" houses
- veto
- cancel
- impeach judges
- the check Congress has on the Supreme Court
- Senate
- the "upper" house; has TWO members from each state
- serperation of powers
- divided into 3 branches to provide a balance of powers
- executive
- branch that ENFORCES LAWS
- Articles of Confederation
- the way the US government was run BEFORE the Constitution
- 3/5ths Compromise
- the agreement to count slaves as a fraction of a person when counting population
- representative democracy
- a government led by officials who are chosen by the people
- Great Compromise
- the agreement that decided the Senate would use New Jersey Plan and the House would use the Virginia Plan
- delegated powers
- powers granted to the federal government
- Congress
- the House of Representatives and the Senate combined
- legistlative
- branch that MAKES LAWS
- Virginia Plan
- the plan to have number of congress members per state be based on POPULATION
- James Madison
- Father of the Constitution
- 100
- total number of Senators in the Senate
- reserved powers
- powers kept by the state government or by citizens
- state
- the government that maintains roads
- cabinet
- department secretaries....who advise presidents
- New Jersey Plan
- the plan to have number of congress members per state be EQUAL for each state
- declare executive actions unconstitutional
- the check the Supreme Court has on the president
- president
- head of the Executive Branch
- elastic clause
- provides flecibility for the government
- veto bills
- the check the president has on Congress
- Bill of Rights
- The first ten amendments of the Constitution
- federal
- the government that runs the Post Office
- both
- the government that can levy taxes
- House of Representatives
- the "lower" house; number of members are based on a state's population
- state
- the government that decides marriage laws
- articles
- how the Constitution is split into sections
- declare laws unconstitutional
- the check the Supreme Court has on Congress
- impeach the president
- the check Congress has on the president
- 2nd amendment
- part of Bill of Rights that includes right to bear arms and state militias
- judicial
- branch that INTERPRETS LAWS
- pardon
- freedom from punishment
- override
- the power congress has to pass a law the president vetoed
- state
- the government that runs schools
- apportionment
- planned distribution of representatives
- appoints judges
- the check the president has on the Supreme Court
- impeach
- vote to bring charges of treason OR to remove from office
- unconstitutional
- if a law is NOT in the CONSTITUTION, it is declared this
- preamble
- the first part of the Constitution
- concurrent powers
- shared powers of state and federal
- federal
- the government who can declare war